There’s often a lot of emphasis on the best death metal being progressive or technical – especially around these parts; And often the best death metal is the most progressive and/or technical. Yet, also often, it’s easy to loose sight of what made death metal so appealing in the first place, which was the simple aim of going harder than any other genre. Misotheism is here to remind…
Guess who’s back in the house (of straw)! Bury Your Dead might not have much of a profile these days, but they were easily one of the most acts of the early 2000s. The Boston hardcore crew are as much to thank/blame as The Acacia Strain, for the bouncy, beatdown-focussed…
Of all the ways post-hardcore could have evolved, who could have predicted we’d eventually be talking about something called “Swancore.” The quasi-genre has spun out more significantly than I’m sure Will Swan might have guessed when he co-founded Dance Gavin Dance. At the same time, his signature guitar style is…
The question of what exactly makes post-rock what it is is a hotly debated one. But, as with all forms of discourse, there are usually a few “points of truth” on which everyone (more or less) tends to agree. For post-rock, some of these include the lack of vocals (although…
Man, what have I done exactly to deserve all this excellent, chunky, electronic post-rock? I remember, not too long ago, when 65daysofstatic were pretty much the only band doing this kind of stuff (although, of course, there were always more names in the genre). Now, it seems as if we’re in the middle of a huge explosion of this style, with bands like Reformat and Tides From Nebula doing some really cool stuff with the sound in the past few years. Well, to this illustrious group we can now add The Kompressor Experiment, a Swiss group dealing in the delayed,…
We’ve been singing the praises of the underrated Jinjer on the blog for a while now. That’s why it’s so…
Collaborations are the ultimate musical wild card, offering up either a pleasant surprise or unfulfilled potential. Fortunately for us, both…
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Playlist Update typically covering numerous genres and sometimes a different style in each square. While we have occasionally covered non-metal topics in past blog posts, we decided that a dedicated column was warranted in order to more completely recommend all of the music that we have been listening to. Unmetal Monday is a bi-weekly column which covers noteworthy tracks…
There are certain privileges and challenges that come when you get to interview a band multiple times. On the one…
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Not a lot of metal news this week. Certain “best albums of the decade” lists (and how we hate such lists), Abigail Williams, Fit For An Autopsy and Jinjer. Then, cool people time with The Lighthouse, Aniara, Joe Abercrombie’s A Little Hatred, Disco Elysium and Parasite. Enjoy!
I don’t know exactly why, but metal is so ripe for parody sometimes. Maybe it’s because it’s pretty easy to make fun of metal at times, and there’s such a uniform style that it’s just easy to ape. It can also be so chaotic that the bands themselves are just having a good time and feeling themselves a lot which lends itself to a good joke. The best bands will completely own the joke and make really serious music at the same time. Cannabis Corpse is one of those bands. Nug So Vile is the perfect example of a record…
I’m at a bit of a loss what to write exactly for this month’s intro. Not because I don’t have…
It’s been two years since we last spoke about Timeworn. Their last release, Venomous High, lived up to its name.…
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations. -Scott Murphy Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure trove, others find themselves drawing a blank at the end of the month due to…
